As long as it is because of the huge amount of story content and dialogue / special events.

Within FFVII one could always re-visit places by running around the world-map. I hope they will still allow for that. Midgar was accessible in Disc 2 by digging up the Key to Sector 5 .. who knows? Maybe they’ll allow us to do…

This is the reason why it will be Episodic. Keep’on Swappin!